Hiya
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Helloo people :) I haven't been very active for the past year, but I have been popping in from time to time. I remember back in the day when I blogged just about every day. Ah, the times. In fact, in about a week, I'll have been at Sal's for 8 years! That's kind of scary.
As for me, nothing astronomical has changed since the last entry. My girlfriend and I are going strong, and my parent situation hasn't changed. Actually, my mum said that she 'didn't like gays', on a few separate occasions. Just lovely reminders of what I'm gonna be hit with when I tell them. School hasn't changed hugely either. I feel like my marks are slipping and I lack the motivation to improve because I know that I'll exceed the requirements for the university I want to go to. Hmm, that sounds kind of cocky. Okay, let's put it this way - to fail the requirements for this university, I need to miraculously drop by about 50% in all my subjects within the space of 2 months. The university I want to go to has a rather low requirement (70 ATAR for you Aussies) in my standards. This is because I'm wanting to enroll in the GIS (Geographic Information Science) degree, and this university is literally the only one that offers it in Australia. Lucky that it's not far away from where I live. I also finally passed my driving test after failing 3 times (oops :P ), which means I can drive on my own in February next year! Yaaaay :D
So yeah, high school officially ends for me in about 5 weeks, which seems daunting, but honestly I'm completely over highschool and I want to experience my freedom. Just get me out of here already. God, I sound like such a teenager. After the 5 weeks though, I have about 2 months of exams that are spaced out nicely. After that, I'm going on a 6-week holiday to America with my parents from December to mid-Jan. We're gonna pretty much go around the coast, starting from New York, down to Orlando and Miami, then across to New Orleans, pretty much stopping whenever we want till El Paso, and we might cross the border and spend some time in Mexico. Then we'll probably head up to Flagstaff, go to the Grand Canyon, then Las Vegas, and finally we'll depart at LA. That's the very rough plan anyway - we haven't booked any hotels yet so the schedule is still very flexible. Since most of you guys are from the US, do you have any tips/recommendations/advice for me? Places to go, things to buy, where all the bargains are, and especially FOOD. Just everything :P
This America trip may also cause complications in telling my parents about the girlfriend and all. The original plan was that I'd tell them as soon as exams ended, so they can spend more time mooning over it in the holidays rather than when I start uni. However, telling them straight after they've blown their bank on me by going to America doesn't seem very nice. Like, "Hey parents, thanks for giving me a once in a lifetime experience, now I'm going to ruin your lives." But if the GF and I saw each other heaps in the holidays when they don't know, it'll be a bit fishy. The idea was that I'd tell them ASAP so that they can have time to process, then we can spend time together before uni kills our social lives. But I don't know what's going to happen now. Either way, I feel so sorry for my parents because they're going to be devastated.
Not long to go now, I'm on my last run till I get out of highschool! Then I'll probably be back asking for uni advice :P . Until then, see ya!
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